A tornado watch was in effect for much of Illinois, including the Chicago area, and Indiana Sunday afternoon.This includes Newton and Lake counties in Indiana until 3 p.m. Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee,

The tornado watch is in effect till 7 p.m. for Chicago, the surrounding south and west suburbs and northwest Indiana. The National Weather Service warns of tornadoes, hail the size of ping-pong balls and 70 mph winds.

More than 109 million Americans from the southern Great Lakes region to as far south as Texas and Louisiana face a dangerous severe weather threat on Sunday, with storms that could pack destructive wind gusts,

Damage has been reported in Champaign County and several thousand people are without power in central Illinois

Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected tomorrow. The Storm Prediction Center has parts of Central Illinois like Jacksonville and Lincoln under a Slight Ris

Powerful storms are forecast to move east after pelting the central U.S. with heavy wind and giant hailstones, causing at least five deaths and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast are bracing for storms that damaged buildings and whipped up tornadoes in the Midwest and Southern states.